The team at Lincoln & York is celebrating after Coffee Buyer and Taster, Rebekah Kettrick, became the first and only female Q Arabica and Q Robusta licensed coffee grader in Europe.
At the UK’s first ever Q Robusta course, held at the end of 2016 in Edinburgh, Rebekah experienced a rigorous six days learning about the Robusta bean’s attributes and flavours, alongside calibrating, cupping and scoring the coffee.
The Height of the Reeds is a major new sound installation by Opera North for the iconic Humber Bridge, running 1 – 30 April 2017 as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017. Tickets are now available.
The installation is an adventure in sound featuring the Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North; an original piece of music heard through headphones during a walk across the bridge, alongside the resonances of the bridge and its weather and traffic.
Leading Beverley accountancy firm cbaSadofskys has appointed Katy Booth as its new Head of Corporate Finance.
Katy joins cbaSadofskys from an independent York-based practice, where she has been a Corporate Finance Associate since 2010. In addition to this role she acted as lead advisor on a large client portfolio of businesses, including UK SMEs, small groups of companies, LLPs and partnerships.
After what’s been universally accepted as a hugely successful inaugural festival, the team behind Stage4Beverley has confirmed the festival will go ahead in 2018 and hopefully become a permanent fixture on Beverley’s calendar.
Sell-out concerts on all three nights of the festival, which was held at the East Riding Theatre in Beverley across the weekend of February 17 to 19, plus healthy audiences at daytime concerts and workshops has given the volunteer team behind the event enough confidence to start planning for next year.
In recent years there has been a trend in housebuilding in the UK to build larger new homes with more bedrooms. It’s a trend that has seen major changes in the house designs from our regions builders.
One company who have certainly embraced these layout changes is Peter Ward Homes. The company’s Managing Director, Peter Ward takes a lot of interest in market developments and he had this to say about how they had affected his business.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 336 is out and features a selection of content from the HU17.net Web Site. The magazine can be purchased from Molescroft News, Woodhall Way.
This week features coverage of BE.THE.CHANGE the fund raising event organised by local girl Rebecca Bennett. Also there is round up of local news.
M & Co in Beverley are holding a fashion show on 16 March at their town centre store in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research.
Tickets, which are priced just £5 each can be purchased in store with proceeds going to support the charity.
360 Chartered Accountants is pleased to announce the appointment of a new senior personal tax advisor.
Joanne Wilkinson, from Hedon near Hull, has 20 years’ experience in personal tax having worked for one of the world’s largest international practices as well as a number of large regional accountancy firms.
JetSkiWarden is solution from a a leading boat and marine technology company to deal with the thousands of watercraft being stolen every year, with jet skis being the main target.
JetSkiWarden uses the latest state-of-the-art technology to digitally connect owners with their jet skis, using an app on their mobile phone or tablet which allows them to track, recover and even immobilise them when necessary.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the Treasure House in Beverley – is proving so popular that is to be opened additionally on three Sundays in March.
A first major event as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017, the free exhibition is currently open Mondays to Saturdays in the Treasure House until 22 April, and features 100 awe-inspiring images, from fascinating animal behaviour to breathtaking wild landscapes.
The LGBT+ community in Hull are being invited to contribute towards Pride in Hull by sending in photographs for an exhibition which celebrates the 2017 theme – Through the Decades.
The exhibition, A Moment in Time, is one of many events Pride in Hull, in partnership with Hull UK City of Culture 2017, have planned to take the community on a journey exploring how life has changed for the LGBT+ community in Hull.
Hull will be at the forefront of national events to mark 50 years since the start of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, when it hosts the biggest LGBT+ celebrations ever held in the region.
Hull 2017 is joining forces with Pride in Hull and the iconoclastic queer collective Duckie and a host of partners to create LGBT 50, which will take place from 22 – 29 July.
Humberside police are appealing for members of the public to come forward who may have information relating to a theft from home on Grove Park in Beverley.
During the sneak in burglary a number of items were taken from the property while the home owners were in another room.
A new exhibition, entitled “Keldgate”, opens at the Beverley Guildhall on Friday, 3 March.
Keldgate, the exhibition, looks at the history of this apparently unprepossessing street, which many see simply as a route from A to B, and unlocks some of the more interesting aspects of the street’s development and its many fascinating buildings.
It seems as though extreme rainfall is characterising our weather more and more these days.
Maybe that’s a misconception, but the fact remains that flood damage is a major problem for all too many people, and here in the Archives at the Treasure House in Beverley.
Photos from the BE.THE.CHANGE a fund raising event for Ovarian Cancer Action that was at The Mercure Grange Park Hotel in Willerby.
Around 200 people enjoyed Casino Themed Evening organised by Beverley girl Rebecca Bennett and proved to be another successful night and top quality entertainment.
Buddy, a 12 year old Staffie cross, is a patient at Vets4Pets Beverley and has been seen regularly at the practice after suffering from a mild stroke just before Christmas.
While a little weak on his hind legs, Buddy enjoys going out for walks with his owner, Michael Pennick.
This was the final leg of a series of very tough pre-season friendlies which the Taylor,Howdle and O’Connor had organised, and on the surface of it they will take plenty of positives against NCL 1 opposition.
This was another entertaining warm up for the season with no shortage of passion but played in a generally good spirit.